Our training activities are geared towards building policy research and analytical skills amongst students, agrarian sector organisations, civil society actors including NGOs and media bodies, government policy makers, researchers, development workers, agricultural extension workers, and other agrarian sector stakeholders. In the region, the SMAIAS arranges an annual Summer School on Agrarian Studies for young scholars in collaboration with Rhodes University, University of Cape Town, University of Brasilia (Brazil), University of Dar es Salaam, Hakiardhi (Tanzania) and International Development Economics Associates (India).

The SMAIAS actively supports the next generation of scholars pursuing research that advances knowledge about land, agrarian and resource issues in Zimbabwe. In the past years SMAIAS has mentored Masters and PhD students from regional and international learning institutions through the successful completion of their studies. The SMAIAS Research Fellowship programme gives PhD and post Doctoral Students with research projects in our areas of specialization the opportunity to access our Resource Centre and contribute to a collegial environment of academic enquiry and hands on learning.

Other capacity support initiatives include student training in the form of internships, bibliographic support, supervision of dissertations, academic guidance and advice to both researchers and CSOs working within the broader land and agrarian policy thematic area.

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Name

University

Year of study

Title of thesis/area of Study

Status

Post Doctoral Fellows

Tendai Murisa

Trust Africa

Patience Mutopo

Cologne

Horman Chitonge

Cape Town

Giuliano Martiniello

Makerere Institute of Social Research

PhD

Walter Chambati

Witwatersrand

2

New agrarian labour relations

Proposal

Marie-France Baron Bonarjee

Cape Town

Agricultural Markets

Proposal

Grasian Mukodzongi

Edinburgh

Social Organisations

Submitted for examination

Wilhelm Hesselbach

Cape Town

Gender and land

Proposal

Gracia Neves Quitari

Cape Town

Land question in Angola

Yumi Sakata

Japan

Agricultural Markets

Emmaculate Ingwani

Stellenbosch

Informal land markets

Ricado Jacobs

Johns Hopkins

Land and social movements

Ndabezinhle Nyoni

Wildlife and conservancies

Pre-PhD

Masters

Nicholas Odoyo

Nairobi

Steven Mberi

Pre-Masters Intern

Tatenda Matengu

Pre-Masters Intern

Gloria Jimwaga

Pre-Masters

AIAS OVERVIEWAIAS is a regional organisation that seeks to influence land and agrarian reform policies through multidisciplinary social science research, policy dialogues, training, networking and information dissemination